The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-05

Democratic spirit" These noble sentiments
expressed in less ornate language mean that if
influential Democrats don't see what they want,
in the shape of offices, they are TO ask for it.
Boston Journal.
How can Mr. Lamar's friends hope to put
aside the ugly fact that in speech, at Rich
mond. Va, in 1862 he stigmatized President
Lincoln as the buffoon who now disgraces the
seat once occupied by Washington and Jeffer-
sonl-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
IT has been asserted that the Presidents mes
sage will be longer than usual Every extra or
unneeded word will be a blunder. The message
should be brought within the leisure OF the
reader who is busy man. The busy men are
the backbone of the country.-Phlladelphla
Record Dem
THE President expresses his surprise that so
many respectable citizens are willing to conn1ve
at violations of the pension laws Somebody
should tell him about very big and very re-
spectacle citizen who conniveS IN the most
shameless manner at violations of the civil
service laws.-Philadelphia Inquirer
In every State where the third party Prohibi-
tionists have held the balance of power. they
have used it as to permit the saloon power
to gain the victory. This is something that
temperance people everywhere should bear IN
mind. The same is true in counties and con-
gressional districts as well in States.-De-
troit Tribune.
THE statement in the European dispatches
that Jay Gould expresses entire satisfaction
with Mr.. Cleveland's administration will sur
prise nobody Mr. Cleveland has done nothing
since he went into office to bring the blush of
shame to the cheek of modeSty or the pang of
remorse to the conscience of q monopolSt.
Philadelphia Press.
THE majority of the people of Utah give their
allegiance to another sovereignty which they
hold to be higher and more authoritative than
the government of the United States; and to
give the Territory statehood under present con-
dItions would be to surround an alien host with
all the defenses which statehood uprears and
take from the United States the power to pro-
tect the sincere and loyal men who now resi-
dents of this region. 1t would be like sending
to a hostile army the weapons and tools to
able it to build around it impregnable defenses
and in the meantime to resist al assault.-Salt
Lake Tribune.
ANARCHY fourishes in this country, while in
Germany and England its disciples are wan and
timid. If it is desirable that men like Most
should be induced to go elsewhere and stay
there the gait for their locomotion set by the
police of other countries should be adopted by
the authorities of New York The fact that
Most has been contented to remain in America
longer than he tarried in Germany implies that
of police procedure. He should certainly be
given pen, ink and paper, in order that he may
suffer the voluntary fortune of reading in soil
tude his own language.-Brooklyn Eagle.
THAT the bucket-shops should be prosecuted
to the end that their pernicious business shall
be terminated is eminently proper but it is ex-
traordinary that the Board of Trade, which
dwells in glass-house, should propel the mis-
sile. 1t might be well for the board to cast the
beam out of itsown eye before plucking the
mote from its brothers, for the board is one of
lies wholly in the hands of members who can, if
they will, purge its operations of the one often
Slve feature, the feature of essential kinShip
with the bucketshops which they en-
gagged in bringing to bar.-Chicago Herald
ONE of the keenest bits of irony lately uttered
is the suggestion that the President will not
favor the postal telegraph. because the firm
tabliShment of civil service reform would be
imperiled by doubling the employees of the gov
eminent" Mr.. Cleveland is very sensitive on
this point, even to delicacy. His letter and his
check in aid of candidate Fellows, his silent re-
buke of the German officeholding ballot fxersin
Maryland. and his well-known displeasure at
the interference of his appointees in local poll
tics everywhere, furnish ample proof of his
hear that he would like to abolish about half a
million offices to get rid of as many Democratic
heelers. The purity of Mr.. Cleveland's motives
is marvelous-in the eyes of his benefciaries
National Republican.
THE claim that Mr.. Turpie has no right to the
seat will rest upon the ground that his certif-
cate does not bear the signature of the presid-
ing officer of the House and of the Secretary of
State; that several of the Democratic members
legally chosen, and that the refusal to permit
the Republican Lieutenant governor to preside
over the Senate vitiated the whole proceeding.
The aforementioned circumstance is undoubt-
edly the strongest hold the Republicans have.
Had they held to it manfully from the start and
Senator, until the Lieutenant governor. chosen
by the people, had been given his rights. their
position would have been clear and impreg
nable. They chose to abandon. it. however,
either through bad judgment from lack of
frmness, and threw upon the United States
Senate the task of unraveling the snarl.-Phila-
delphia Paess.